Garment-holder.



No. 768,037. PATENTED AUG. 23, 1904;

- T. J. FEARNS.

GARMENT HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11, 1903- NO MODEL.

T llamas J. Farns, fnveniar UNITED STATES Patented August 23, 1904.

THOMAS J. FEARhlS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,037, dated August23, 1904.

Application filed June 11, 1903.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. FEARNS, a citizen of the United States,residing at New 'York, in the county and State of New York,

which are designed to be used in connection with a belt and adapted tohold the wearers waist and skirt in fixed positions relative to eachother.

The objects of the invention are to provide such a device which willhold the garments firmly, but so gently as to obviate danger of tearingor other injury, which will be simple in construction and operation,which will be" inexpensive, and which will lend itself readily toornamentation in any desired degree.

To these ends it consists in the novelrfeatures and combinationshereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring now to the drawings for a clear understanding of my invention,Figures 1 and 2 show the device with the hinged member in differentpositions. Fig. 3 is asection showing the holder in use.

The preferred embodiment of my invention consists of two members 1 2,hinged together in any convenient manner, so as to be capable of angularmovement relative to each other, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. On theoutside of leaf 1 are devices for engaging a beltas, for example, loops3 4 -througl1 which the belt 9 passes. These loops may obviously beornamented, if desired. On the inside of the. leaf or member 1 issecured a layer 5, of material adapted to have considerable frictionwith cloth. I prefer to use corrugated rubber for this purpose, withparallel ribs or other projections arranged as shown.. The rubber isfastened in place by crimping the edge of the plate over it, as at 6, orin any other suitable way. The adjacent face of the other plate, 2, maybe left smooth, but is preferably stamped or otherwise given theprojections 7 8 to coact with the corrugations on 'such strains.

Serial No. 160,971. (No model.)

the other. On the back of leaf 2 is also a piece ,of ribbed rubbersimilarly secured in place.

Fig. 3 shows clearly the method of using the device. The leaf 2 isplaced between the waist 10 and the skirt-band 11, and the leaf 1,carryingthe belt 9, folded down over the band in the position of theview referred to. The belt is now extended around the waist and: securedwith the desired degree of tightness, thus pressing the corrugations ofleaf 2 firmly against the garment 10, and the other leaf with equalfirmness against the skirtband 11. When thus arranged, it will be foundimpossible to disturb the relative positions of the two garments by anystrain to which they would ordinarily be subjected, and thefriction-surfaces are of such considerable area that the garments willnot be torn by The projections 7 8 coacting with the corrugated face 5materially increase the grip at .those points.

While the form shown and described herein is the one I prefer, it shouldbe understood,

of course, that the invention is capable of various other embodiments,and I therefore do not consider myself limited to that herein disclosed;but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a device of the character described, in combination, a plate, 1,rigid loops on one face of the plate, a sheet, 5, of corrugated rubberon the other face, a second plate, 2, hinged loosely to the first at oneedge and adapted to fold down against the corrugated face of the other,corrugations 7, 8, on the contiguous face of the second plate adapted tocoact with the corrugated rubber on the other plate, a sheet ofcorrugated rubber on the other face of the second plate, and a beltextending through the loops in thefirst plate, whereby the pressure ofthe belt alone causes [the garments engaged by the corrugated faces tobe firmly held in position, substantially as shown and described and forthe purposes set forth.

THOMAS J. FEARNS.

Witnesses:

M. LAWSON DYER, S. S. DUNI-IAM.

